This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. We are grateful to them all, and hope that you will enjoy becoming part of the story of the First Folio. This has been made possible by the generous support of the donors to the Sprint for Shakespeare public campaign (August to December 2012). Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. Welcome to the digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch.To learn more about the plot and early printing history of Othello, please see the Folger’s Shakespeare's Works and the British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto site, which also contains information about additional copies of this edition. It was acquired by Henry Folger from the Sotheby’s sale of the Curzon-Howe family library in December 1907. The original editor of The Arden Shakespeare was William James Craig (18991906), succeeded by R. Over the next 25 years, the entire canon of Shakespeare was edited and published. Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigal, The history of Thomas Lord Cromwel, Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, The Puritan widow, A Yorkshire tragedy, The tragedy of Locrine. The first series was published by Methuen.Its first publication was Edward Dowdens edition of Hamlet, published in 1899. The copy shown above is one of fourteen recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue, and is one of two owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library. Unto which is added seven plays, never before printed in folio: viz. The First Folio, on the other hand, seems to have been set from a later revision of the play, and includes sections such as Desdemona’s Willow song ( Oxford Companion 330). The quarto version is the only Shakespeare quarto to have act divisions notated, and it might have been set from a scribal presentation copy of the play from near to the time when it was first written. Scholars believe that this is a result of two different manuscripts being used for the typesetting. The text that appears in this quarto and the text that appears in the First Folio, printed only a year later, are vastly different. It was entered into the Stationers’ Company Register on Octoby Thomas Walkley, who then had it printed by Nicholas Okes. This is the first edition of Othello, printed in 1622, around eighteen years after it was first written and performed. Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USAĬall number and opening: STC 22305 copy 1, title page for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse, 1622. These three genres provide only a rough sorting of plays mostly not rigorously conforming to Aristotle or the Unities (except perhaps for The Comedy of Errors, and The Tempest ). Written by VVilliam Shakespeare.ĭate: London : printed by N. First Folio has brought operations to a close as of February 26, 2023. In the first collection of Shakespeare’s scripts, the First Folio, his plays were broken into three not two categories: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. As it hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Maiesties Seruants. Title: The tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. For images copyrighted by an entity other than the Folger, please contact the copyright holder for permission information. The Folger waives permission fees for non-commercial publication by registered non-profits, including university presses, regardless of the license they use. For more information, including permissions beyond the scope of this license, see Permissions. The play was first published in 1622 as a quarto (Q1) and then, a year later, in a different version in the 1623 First Folio (F1). This allows you to use our images without additional permission provided that you cite the Folger Shakespeare Library as the source and you license anything you create using the images under the same or equivalent license. The textual history of Othello is opaque. Images that are under Folger copyright are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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